This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. American politicians from opposite parties don’t agree on much — except that technology superpowers are too powerful. Liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans applauded the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week accusing Google of illegally protecting its monopoly over search and search advertising. To find out how America’s tech giants became bipartisan punching bags, I spoke with my colleague Cecilia Kang, who has written about technology companies and Washington policy for nearly 15 years. Shira: For years, Washington politicians tended to agree that technology companies were great American successes.

Source: New York Times October 23, 2020 16:07 UTC